Dr. Priscilla Ferreira is an Afro-Brazilian feminist, abolitionist, and social justice educator. She is also an Assistant Professor of Geography and Latinx & Caribbean at Rutgers University- New Brunswick-USA. Her work and activism focus on Black solidarity economies, Black geographies, and community-engaged pedagogies and scholarship.
She has been organizing with communities of color inside and outside of academia over the past twenty years and collaborated in several popular education projects internationally.
Dr. Ferreira is the coordinator of the English & Social Justice School, a language justice Black co-op that offers language training, interpretation and translation services for social movements and creates opportunities for international education and political collaboration for/with Black grassroots activist/scholar/artists.
She is a board member of Collective Diaspora, a new membership-based organization of Black cooperatives and Black-led co-op support organizations from across the African diaspora.
Her recent publications include a critique of white-centrism and epistemic injustice in solidarity economy movements in the journal Geoforum; experiential narratives of Black feminist research methodologies in Women Studies Quarterly, and a co-authored book in Portuguese- Tia Lucinha of Favela City of God (desses): the political biography of a community organizer (Desalinho Publicações, forthcoming 2023).